which serve as technical guidelines, in the series Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies. Officers of the Technical Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. Chair: Lars Gaustad, Senior Preservation Advisor, National Library of Norway Vice-chair: Nadja Wallaszkovits, Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Secretary: Andrew Martin, DAMsmart, Australia Training & Education Committee The Training & Education Committee seeks to create and support an Audiovisual archival community who are knowledgeable, professional, capable of caring for their collections effectively, and acknowledged as such by their institutions or wider professional community. Officers of the Training & Education Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. The Training and Education Committee concerns itself with audiovisual archiving Training & Education, as well as concentrated actions in gaining multifunctional training and education material. Chair: Nadia Lai, Swiss National Sound Archives Vice-chair: Pio Pellizzari, Swiss National Sound Archives Secretary: Gisa Jähnichen, Berlin National Archives Section The National Archives Section is where members meet to consider issues facing officially designated national collections, e.g. acquisition policies, legal deposit, the management of large collections, whether held in archives, museums, libraries, dedicated audiovisual organisations or research institutes and universities. Chair: Janet Topp Fargion, The British Library Secretary: Dr. Gila Flam, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Broadcast Archives Section The Broadcast Archives Section handles the special responsibilities of audiovisual archives in broadcast companies. Chair: Jennifer Vaughn, Senior Digital News Librarian, RFE/RL Prague, Czech Republic Vice-chair: Carolyn Birdsall, Researcher and teacher (AV archiving), Media Studies, University of Amsterdam Secretary: Lynn Johnson, e.TV (PTY) Limited, Cape Town Europeana Sounds Task Force The Europeana Sounds Task Force works on the following activities: investigate sources of funding to sustain the work of the 2014-2017 Europeana Sounds project raise awareness of the richness and threats to Europe's sound heritage provide expert training on providing correct metadata for adding audio heritage to the Europeana portal, via conference workshops and webinars investigate the curation of the Europeana channel for music and any other audio-related thematic channels on Europeana copyright and moral rights relating to providing access to audio heritage via Europeana information sharing on best practices for online audio access for the wider benefit of IASA members. Contact: Tom Miles, Europeana Sounds Metadata Coordinator, The British Library Regional branches National and regional branches of